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Missed Opportunity: Federal Spending Increases Prevent Real Tax Relief for Canadians

Federal spending restraint could have provided $18.7 billion in tax relief for Canadians and a budget surplus in 2023/24


VANCOUVERIf the federal government had self-imposed some meaningful spending restraint since 2015/16, it could have provided $18.7 billion of tax relief to Canadians while running a surplus of $4.6 billion this year (2023/24), finds a new study published by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

“The cost of increased spending by Ottawa, largely paid for through additional debt is that Canadians have foregone any meaningful tax relief since 2015/16,” said Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Missed Opportunity: Federal Spending Increases Prevent Real Tax Relief for Canadians.


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